Hi and Welcome,
As you can guess, this project is to support Fedora on ARM architecture and platforms. This email is a short-introduction to the project. You can find more information at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ARM
Let me first introduce myself. I worry about Embedded Linux, open-source, and other related things at Marvell Semiconductors. As some of you know,
we make ARM based processors and system-on-chip solutions, that increasingly run Linux. This project is initiated/sponsored by Marvell, but it is intended to be a fully open project under the Fedora umbrella.
The project started when Lennert and I discussed this a few months back.
As many of you know, Lennert has been developing unofficial Fedora ports
for ARM for a while --- a real long while! We started towards an effort of integrating his ports into the official Fedora project.
A few weeks back, we started talking to Chris Blizzard and some of the RedHat/Fedora folks, and those discussions resulted in moving towards an effort to create ARM port as a secondary architecture within the Fedora project. If all goes well, we would like to have an F8 release for ARM. And, with that in mind, we have been porting/building the F8-devel packages, as well as merging any of the diffs for the packages back into the Fedora CVS.
At this stage, the primary goal of the project is to do a high-quality release of F8 for ARM. The development effort is being led by Lennert, and he will be the technical lead. I will continue to provide guidance and support and help in direction of the project especially during the initial stages as we try to ramp up.
Thats a long enough introduction. If you know of someone who may be interested in Linux on ARM, please invite them over.
Regards, Manas Saksena
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 01:22:37PM -0700, Manas Saksena wrote:
As many of you know, Lennert has been developing unofficial Fedora ports for ARM for a while --- a real long while!
My first Fedora ARM port was that of Fedora Core 2, which seems like ages ago now.
I wasn't the first, though -- before I built my first ARM RPM (and even before I got involved with the ARM Linux port), the Netwinder project (http://netwinder.org) produced an ARM port of Red Hat 9.
Also, Russell King (the ARM Linux kernel maintainer) runs a homebuilt version of Fedora on some of his ARM machines, and some of our patches are based on his patches.
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 01:22:37PM -0700, Manas Saksena wrote:
At this stage, the primary goal of the project is to do a high-quality release of F8 for ARM.
I'm forward-porting the set of FC6 ARM patches to rawhide, verifying that the patches still work (and are still necessary), and creating bugzilla entries for them.
I've created a tracker bug for Fedora ARM support here:
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Lennert Buytenhek -
Manas Saksena